Moin Kikhia
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Background
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Mohamed “Moin” Mansour EL Kikhia was born in Benghazi where he grew up and received his secondary education. He moved to the United States to obtain a Bsc and Msc in Computer Science from Louisiana Tech University, graduating in 1983.
Moin Kikhia has built extensive experience and knowledge of the highest levels of government, business, and civil society. Working as a civil servant until 1994 he held key positions in the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Utilities. Following his career in government, he successfully developed a strong base of business expertise in Benghazi and Amman, Jordan. He is currently the CEO of North Sea Consulting, a research-driven consulting company which provides strategic advisory on issues relating to IT, education and labor force development. His company provides services to clients in the public, private and social sectors across the Arab world.
Moin Kikhia has been deeply committed to restoring stability and peace in Libya following the outbreak of the devastating civil war. In 2011, with the eruption of violence across the country, he founded the Libyan Humanitarian Organization (LHO) to arrange for the evacuation of injured fighters to be treated in Jordan. The LHO was instrumental in sending medical supplies to Libya and helping Royal Jordanian forces set up mobile and military hospitals across the country.
Following the people’s overthrow of the Gaddafi regime, Moin Kikhia was a key player in the Libya Stabilization Team. In 2012 he acted as an advisor for the Libyan Higher National Elections Commission. In collaboration with the United Nations International Organization for Migration, he directed and supervised the Libyan Election Committee.
His relations with the conflicting parties in the country has encouraged communication and deliberation to maintain peace through the various transitions the country has made. On multiple occasions has been trusted to coordinate with domestic and international players to support efforts in seeking to promote a degree of stability in the troubled and turbulent world that has been modern Libya.
In 2019 he founded the Libyan Democratic Institute as a platform to reaching an acceptable resolution to the Libyan conflict and secure a stable and prosperous nation.
Heritage
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Moin Kikhia comes from one of the Benghazi’s oldest and most respected families, consistently influential in national politics. His heritage spans from the Ottoman empire, across the Fascist occupation of the nation and the era of the Gaddafi dictatorship. His father, Mansour Mohamed Kikhia, is a renowned and respected Libyan academic and politician. He is a former member of the first Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as a city representative for Benghazi, also well known for his leading role with the Public Scout and Girl Guide Movement in addition to his input in the Administrative Division System in Libya.
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Moin Kikhia’s uncle, Mansour Rashid Kikhia was the most prominent opposition leader to the Gaddafi regime. He was kidnapped in Egypt in 1991 and then secretly killed . His remains were kept hidden for 19 years until found at the Gaddafi palaces following the 2011 revolution.
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His cousin, Najat Rashid Mansour Kikhia is the first and only elected woman for the Benghazi municipal election, gaining 60% of the vote. She has been a faculty member at the School of Economics at Benghazi University since 1979.
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Moin Kikhia’s wife is the daughter of Al Zubair Langhi, the last living son of Yousef Langhi who supported the revolution against the fascists and coordinated with the allies to end their terror. After the occupation he financed Moin’s grandfather in his efforts to bring back Prince Idris Sanusi to Libya in 1944.
